24/33
Story
Legendary director Mike Lee returns to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous exploration of family and the thorny bonds that bind us together. The stunning Marianne Jean-Baptiste, reuniting with Lee for the first time since the multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, plays Pansy, a fear-ridden, disease-ridden woman prone to violent tirades against her husband, her son, and anyone in her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michelle Osteen (Another Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their conflicting personalities—but filled with the shared warmth of her salon clients and daughters. This large-scale film by a magnificent playwright takes us into the depths of kinship, debt, and the most enduring human mystery: that even though our entire lives are filled with pain and deprivation, we still find ways to love those we call family.
